Paige Turco (born
Jean Paige
Turco; May 17, 1965) is an American actress. She is known
for playing
April O'Neil in
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
and
Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles III.
Early life
Turco was born to Joyce J. and David V.
Turco in Springfield
, Massachusetts
, where she was raised. She attended the
Walnut Hill School in Natick,
Massachusetts
and performed as a solo
at the New England Dance Conservatory, the Amherst Ballet Theatre
Company and the Western Massachusetts Ballet Company.
Paige
graduated from Bay Path
College
in Longmeadow,
MA
in 1987. She majored in Drama at the University of
Connecticut
and after suffering an ankle injury, she turned to
acting and musical theatre.
Acting career
Turco made her television acting debut in 1987, on the
soap opera Guiding
Light as
Dinah Marler, going
on to the soap opera
All My
Children as
Melanie. She guest
starred in
Party of Five as
Annie Mott, a single mother who is also a recovering alcoholic,
co-starred in
The
Agency as graphic artist Terri Lowell, and in the third
season of
Rescue Me
as science teacher Mrs. Nell Turbody. Turco also appeared in the
movie
Invincible,
playing Carol Vermeil, the wife of Dick Vermeil and also co-starred
in the Walt Disney Picture
The
Game Plan.
In 2007, she was cast in the
ABC TV series
Big Shots, portraying Lisbeth, the ex-wife of
Dylan McDermott's character, Duncan
Collinsworth, a cosmetics company CEO. In addition, Turco is in a
talent holding deal with ABC.
Turco plays a guest-starring role in the second season of the
Emmy-Award winning series
Damages.
Personal life
Paige is
Roman Catholic. She is
married to Irish actor
Jason O'Mara and
has one child, David (named in honor of her father, who died when
she was less than one year old). The family divides their time
between Los Angeles, New York and their home in Connecticut and
also frequently visits relatives in Ireland.
Filmography
References
- Paige Turco Biography (1969?-)
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